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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Compendium der Psychiatrie.

Publication Details

Leipzig: A. Abel, 1883 CE.

Later editions of this book were called Lehrbuch. The sixth edition is notable in that in it manic-depressive psychoses were first mentioned as such. Ninth edition in 1927. Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry successively at Dorpat, Heidelberg, and Munich, was one of the greatest of all psychiatrists and a pioneer of experimental psychiatry.

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#4941
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External URLcompendium-der-psychiatrie

Geographic Context

Publication place: Leipzig

Mentioned in annotation: Heidelberg; Munich